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Juan Rulfo, Puente (Bridge). All photos taken between 1944–55. All photos are reproduced with permission of [the owner, with corresponding rights] Clara Aparicio de Rulfo.
Juan Rulfo was born in 1917 in the village of San Gabriel, Jalisco, today Ciudad Venustiano Cerranza. Rulfo is renowned for his fictional accounts of campesinos living in the wake of the Mexican Revolution, and although he published only a few books in his lifetime, he received Mexico’s National Prize for Literature in 1970 and Spain’s Premio Cervantes in 1985.
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Rulfo’s short stories and his only novel, Pedro Páramo, were inspired by the violence that raged on the Mexican countryside into the late 1920s, killing thousands of peasants, including his mother and father.
Though he was best known as a writer, Rulfo also took more than six thousand photographs in and around Jalisco. These photographs, selected from Juan Rulfo’s Mexico (Smithsonian Institution, 2002), present the bleak and startling realiti